Re: Keeping an App Alive

FROM : Robert Cerny
DATE : Mon Jul 31 21:45:45 2006

Eric,
launchd (if you're on the Tiger) is the way to go. Download Lingon, 
and use wizard to create the correct job.

HTH
Robert

On 31.7.2006, at 20:01, Eric Blanpied wrote:

>
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:16 am, Sherm Pendley wrote:
>

>>> I'm writing a Cocoa app that needs to run 24/7, and it's looking 
>>> pretty decent so far. Still, I'm thinking it would be prudent to 
>>> have some way of making sure it's always going, and automatically 
>>> restart it if it fails.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have advice on this?

>>
>> You could schedule a script (with cron or launchd, depending on 
>> the OS version) to run every so often to check if it's running and 
>> if not, start it with "open".
>>
>> Although frankly I'm not a big fan of such an approach. Blindly 
>> restarting an app without first determining the reason it failed 
>> is very rarely a useful thing to do. Quite often it will simply 
>> fail again.
>>
>> sherm--

>
> Thanks. I'm with you on that. I'd probably do something like send 
> an email with the failure notification as well as relaunch the app, 
> but the app's gotta keep going no matter what.
>
> -e
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